internetnews.com: IBM's Little DB Gets Big Help

"Hot on the heels of its decision to donate its Java-based Cloudscape relational database application to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), IBM has launched new resources for its site hosting database.

"Officials have spent the past several weeks revamping the IBM developer site--developerWorks--for Cloudscape, a 2MB-sized database that's small enough to site on most Web site pages. Officials announced they would donate the source code to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), which took over management of the open source project and named it Apache Derby Aug. 3..."

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